If your on the east coast and especially the Northeast you gotta get familiar with Passion Skate Decks. These boards are designed and crafted by Stefan Kaiter-Snyder in a basement just outside of Boston by hand, Passion kills it for board quality, design, and art. 100% for skaters by skaters.

When it comes to buying gear, you always gotta support those that are gonna give back. Most of the industry in this sport is out west so when you see locals pumping out products, and especially of this tier, you gotta support. The new lineup of boards looks prime, and deserve to be checked out. Buy one soon cause it looks like they are in limited supply!!!

Some of the original Team Mids members packed their skate van up and headed west for the winter to discover what all the hype was about. Ben DeSnyder was already out there doing some covert spy work going to school and scamming runs on the regular and took the reigns on the camera so that Pete Laugh, Stephan Kaiter-Snyder, Tryan George, East Coast Mac , Francis Cooper Darquea and Kai Salam could put in some work and get midsy on GMR. We weren’t keeping score, but it definitely looked like Team Mids won.

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Mike is the founder and publisher at Skate The East. When not tinkering with the site, shooting and editing videos, or writing articles, Mike takes to the hills of Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut to get his fix of freeride and light DH.